Word: flyering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Considine got permission from the Air Forces Public Relations Bureau to talk to Lawson, took the train to Washington. There he met a 25 -year-old flyer who had worked his way through Los Angeles Junior College, going to school in the day, working in the Douglas factory at night and sleeping in the school library between classes. An unselfconscious individual, untroubled by his missing leg, Captain Lawson had been trying to get his story on paper, hammering away doggedly but ineffectually. He needed to get his story told. His wife (he had married the Junior College librarian) had just...
...Bennett Cerf gave Lawson and Considine an advance of $7,500. (Considine asked for $5,000.) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid $100,000 for movie rights. Except for the $12,000 from Collier's, which was entirely Captain Lawson's (the magazine paid Considine $4,500), the flyer and the newspaperman divided the book's earnings-two-thirds to Lawson, one-third to Considine...
...film opens during the Battle of Britain. Mitchell's former test pilot (David Niven), now a wing commander, tells the story of Mitchell's working life to a group of flyers as they wait for the order to "scramble" into action. Retiring, publicity-hating Reginald Mitchell was no flyer. He was in every sense an artist, whose struggles and triumphs had a solitary character. As a study and an appreciation of that kind of man and that kind of service-which usually lies forgotten for a generation-this film comes notably soon. Mitchell had to fight official inertia...
Alexander has been a pilot himself for more than 20 years now -rose to be Major in the 110th Observation Squadron, National Guard. But Alexander is a journalist first and a flyer second. He worked 15 years with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, before he came to TIME (he applied for his job here by flying an Army plane into New York in the morning, meeting TIME's editor at two o'clock, flying back to St. Louis that night...
...news items were closely linked. Mr. Trippe warmly advocated that the U.S. should aid British postwar commercial aviation. World War I Flyer Knollys became chairman of British Overseas Airways Corp. in a Government-sponsored reorganization designed to make Britain a major factor in postwar aviation...